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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Pasternak, Judy, 1956-     Subjects     Navajo Indians -- Government relations -- History -- 20th century.     Navajo Indians -- Health and hygiene -- History -- 20th century.     Navajo Indians -- Biography.     Uranium mines and mining -- Political aspects -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.     Uranium mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.     Radiation -- Health aspects -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.     Navajo Indian Reservation -- History -- 20th century.     Southwest, New -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Pasternak, Judy, 1956-       by title:      Yellow dirt : an Ame...       by call number:      979.100497 P291y     Search the Web     Pasternak, Judy, 1956-     Navajo Indians -- Government relations -- History -- 20th century.     Navajo Indians -- Health and hygiene -- History -- 20th century.     Navajo Indians -- Biography.     Uranium mines and mining -- Political aspects -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.     Uranium mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.     Radiation -- Health aspects -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.     Navajo Indian Reservation -- History -- 20th century.     Southwest, New -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Yellow dirt : an American story of a poisoned land and a people betrayed / Judy Pasternak. by Pasternak, Judy, 1956- Free Press, 2010. Call #: 979.100497 P291y Subjects Navajo Indians -- Government relations -- History -- 20th century.   Navajo Indians -- Health and hygiene -- History -- 20th century.   Navajo Indians -- Biography.   Uranium mines and mining -- Political aspects -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.   Uranium mines and mining -- Social aspects -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.   Radiation -- Health aspects -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.   Navajo Indian Reservation -- History -- 20th century.   Southwest, New -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century. URL856 Contributor biographical information URL856 Publisher description ISBN:  9781416594826 1416594825 Edition:  1st Free Press hardcover ed. Description:  xiii, 317 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-304) and index. Summary:  "Yellow Dirt offers readers a window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today. From the 1940s into the early twenty-first century, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe for the sake of atomic bombs. Secretly, during the days of the Manhattan Project and then in a frenzy during the Cold War, the government bought up all the uranium that could be mined from the hundreds of rich deposits entombed under the sagebrush plains and sandstone cliffs. Despite warnings from physicians and scientists that long-term exposure could be harmful, even fatal, thousands of miners would work there unprotected. A second set of warnings emerged about the environmental impact. Yet even now, long after the uranium boom ended, and long after national security could be cited as a consideration, many residents are still surrounded by contaminated air, water, and soil. The radioactive 'yellow dirt' has ended up in their playgrounds, in their bread ovens, in their churches, and even in their garbage dumps. And they are still dying"--Cover, p. 2. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 979.100497 P291y Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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